newAccount2025 35 minutes ago

Is it? There are lots of wonderful US Christians who believe in kindness and compassion and love. There are also lots of US Christians who are deep into end-times insanity, like Christian Zionists. Perhaps the 25% number is high, but this is a very real thing.

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baggy_trough 32 minutes ago | parent [-]

I do not disagree that there are some, but 25% is a massive overstatement, not merely "perhaps" high.

	▲	ambicapter 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Anywhere from 6 to 35% of the United States population is evangelical, depending on how "evangelical" is defined. > In the 2016 presidential election, exit polls reported that 81% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump > Evangelicals generally view the Middle East through a dispensationalist biblical framework and strongly support Israel. Often perceived as the most vocal supporters of Christian Zionism in the West, they believe that God gave the land of Israel to the Jews and that the U.S. will be blessed if it blesses Israel. The establishment of the State of Israel was seen by many American Protestants as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, reinforcing their commitment to Zionism as a religious duty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism_in_the_United_S...